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Title:

Framing Africa : portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema / edited by Nigel Eltringham.

Publisher:

Berghahn,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

vi, 183 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Africa--In motion pictures.
Motion pictures--Europe--History--21st century.
Motion pictures--United States--History--21st century.

Other Authors:

Eltringham, Nigel, editor of compilation.

Notes:

"Berghahn on film". Includes filmography. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Cinema/chimera? the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham -- "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold -- Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch -- War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman -- Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Go Amabokoboko! rugby, race, madiba and the Invictus creation myth of a new South Africa / Derek Charles Catsam.

ISBN:

1782380736 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781782380733 (hardback : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)822668114

LCCN:

2013006285

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)